TAT-8 was the eighth Trans-Atlantic Telephone system and the first to replace copper transmission with single-mode optical fiber between the United States, the United Kingdom, and ...

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

In Grover Beach, construction crews are installing steel conduits in the ocean to hold subsea fiber optic cables. “Ninety-five percent of all telecommunications traffic happens on a fiber optic cable, ...

One of the buzziest technologies in modern science may be running right under your feet. Fiber optic cables bring you the internet as data-rich pulses of light, but they also detect signals from the ...

Steve Brock, Ocean Networks Hawaii project manager, is pictured here talking to a crowd at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center during a presentation on the Hawaiian Islands Fiber Link project Tuesday ...

Amazon’s plans to install an undersea fiber-optic cable off the Tillamook County coast gained approval from state leaders last week, though with some reluctance. During a state land board meeting on ...

Ocean City officials are in talks with online retail giant Amazon about bringing the first transatlantic data cable to Maryland, with a U.S. landing point proposed at the Ocean City Municipal Airport, ...

The more than 1.2 million km of fiber-optic cables that crisscross the planet carry the world's phone calls, internet signals and data. But this summer, researchers published the eerie sounds of blue ...

Google said on Thursday it will build a fiber optic cable to connect Africa and Australia. Named Umoja (a Swahili word meaning “unity”), one end of the cable will start in Kenya and pass through ...